Remembering our grandfathers' exile : US imprisonment of Hawaiʻi's Japanese in World War II /
Remembering Our Grandfathers' Exile: US Imprisonment of Hawaiʻi's Japanese in World War II is a composite chronicling of the Hawaiʻi Japanese immigrant experience in mainland exile and internment during World War, from prewar climate to arrest to exile to return. Told through the eyes of a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Remembering Our Grandfathers' Exile: US Imprisonment of Hawaiʻi's Japanese in World War II is a composite chronicling of the Hawaiʻi Japanese immigrant experience in mainland exile and internment during World War, from prewar climate to arrest to exile to return. Told through the eyes of a granddaughter and researcher born during that war, it is also a research narrative that reveals parallels between pre-World War II conditions and current 21st century anti-immigrant attitudes and heightened racism. It includes an introduction of Okawa's grandfather, Reverend Tamasaku Watanabe, a Protestant minister, and other Issei prisoners, all legal immigrants excluded by law from citizenship, in a collective biographical narrative that depicts their suffering, challenges and survival as highly literate men faced with captivity in the little-known prison camps run by the U.S. Justice and War Departments. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780824881191 0824881192 9780824881207 0824881206 |